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I thought a Welsh legend was a story about sheep ???
Sounds like good value for money. Will’s clearly a bit of a tight wad.
Pity her name was changed to protect the guilty !!!
@sir Actor wrote:
@bat wrote:
Hope your son does ok with is driving lessons Tel. Let us know how he gets on. When does he take his test? You,ll be chewing your fingernails off then. :lol:
I’ll keep you informed of his progress. :wink:
Maybe you could tell us when the test is – and more importantly approximately where……….
…… so we can all avoid the area. :lol: :lol: :lol:
PS: Tell him that if he sees an old & battered Red Volvo anywhere …. jump out of his car PDQ and abort the test !!!
….. or even Mr Whippy giving up sado-masochism. :lol:
Flatulence
Acceptable to whom Will??? The laws of Saidi Arabia seem, on the face of it, to be acceptable to the Saudis.
She was lucky (don’t faint please), if she did the same thing in the ‘Sharia’ parts of Nigeria for example – she’d have been publicly stoned to death.
There was a time when I used to present the obligatory bunch of red roses to demonstrate my undying love; when I would entertain the object of my affections to a dinner in a ‘nice’ restuarant ….. but no more. With age comes knowledge – and I have learnt a lot over the years.
My usual inner cynic tells me that, as I am now married to her, I needn’t go to all this trouble to ‘win her over’. Fortunately she isn’t a ‘high maintenance’ wife.
But the real reason is far more prosaic. I am simply sick and tired of being ripped off.
Buy a modest bunch of roses during the rest of the year and they’ll cost you anywhere between £3.99 and say £10. Buy the same bunch of roses for Valentine’s Day and they’ll start at £20 and go up from there.
Restuarants are pretty much the same. The “special Valentine’s Day” menu – which differs little from the regular menu – will cost you considerably more that you’d pay at any other time of the year.
They rarely if ever increase the numbers of waiting staff to cope with a full house, so service standards are reduced to almost non-existent. The result is that you spend bloody hours over an indifferent meal in an over-crowded restuarant, served lukewarm by stressed out staff and end up paying over the odds for the privilege.
To add insult to injury, you spend your evening surrounded by spotty faced youths desperately trying to impress this week’s girlfriend, with little if any chance of success, being served by bad tempered staff and the ultimate indignity – being ripped off by the management.
As always, I shall prepare a superb supper for us both (and my little daughter), prepared just the way she likes it; washed down with a chilled bottle of her favourite wine; and we shall stroll next door to the sitting room with a cup of Espresso coffee and maybe a nightcap, and settle down for a pleasant peaceful evening uninterrupted by lovesick youths mooning over each other.
Salmonella poisoning.
As it happens Reason, I completely agree with you. By our standards it does indeed “stink”.
However, and there is always a ‘however’ isn’t there – we have to accept that Saudi laws and standards are NOT the same as our laws and standards. This isn’t to say that they are wrong (or for that nmatter that they are right) simply that those are THEIR laws and not ours.
This woman was a Saudi national living in Saudi Arabia and subject to all the laws of HER country. In their terms she may well have been leniently treated – who knows.
We are really really fortunate that the laws in THIS country would NEVER allow a vistim of an alleged rape to be charged with adultery; convicted; imprisoned; and publicly lashed.
